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TEN POINTS 



OF 



INGERSOLLVILLE 

INCLUDING 

REPLIES TO ALL OF MR. INGERSOLL'S LECTURES 



Eev. W. P. Crafts, .Pastor of Trinity M. E. Church, Chicago; 

and Chaplain C. C. M'Care, Secretary of M. E. 

Church Extension Board. 



EDITED BY REV. J. B. McCLURE. 



W. F. CRAFTS' REPLY. 



Ingersollism Outlined — " Ten Points " instead of " Five " — Infidel 

Protoplasm. 

"I war with principles, not with men" — the motto of 
Webster in political debates — should be the law in all con- 
flicts of ideas, especially in the realm of religion. It is 
not of the person, Mr. Ingersoll, that I speak, but rather 
of the principles of which he is the most popular spokes- 
man, and which make up that shallowest, but loudest, 
Jericho book of infidelity's bitter waters which begins in 
a few tears of pretended martyrdom to love of truth ; spat- 
ters the mud of epithets upon Christians, while condemn- 
ing that very vice in a part of the Church in less advanced 






8 MISTAKES OF INQERSOLL. 

ages; babbles shallowly along its little channel about law 
as an almighty executive, as if the rails that give direction 
to a train took the place of the engine that draws it; winds 
very crookedly through the Old Testament, avoiding every 
passage except those few that can be used for ridicule; 
plows still more crookedly through church history, shun- 
ning every part except the unchristian swamps of bigotry 
and superstition; keeps up the same snaky crookedness in 
its passage through religion of to-day, hurrying noisily 
among only the'few rocky and marshy places, where it can 
find the reptiles of superstition and error; passes with great 
dash of spray along the audacious theory that Christian 
civilization is the result of anti-Christian forces; plunges 
with loud roar of waters down its claim that infidelity is 
the only liberator of man, woman, and child; and still flow- 
ing within its narrow little channel babbles of itself as an 
emancipated ocean of untrammeled thought. 

These characteristics of the brook are the ten points of 
Ingersollism. I have read and re-read, carefully, the nine 
published lectures of Mr. Ingersoli on religious themes, 
besides hearing the one entitled " Skulls," and every one of 
them has something on each of these ten points of his fixed 
and unchanging creed, and not one or all has anything 
beyond these ten " doctrines " — for he often uses the words, 
" That is my doctrine." While attacking creeds of the 
Church he holds and urges all to believe his own unformu- 
lated but distinct creed, offering in place of the " five points 
of Calvinism " the ten points of Ingersollism, the latter 
occurring as regularly in every one of his lectures in this 
age as the former did a century ago in the sermons of Cal- 
vinists, which he ridicules for their sameness. 

"What is this frightful monster that we call " a creed?" 
Simply a statement of what one believes. Every man, 
unless he is an idiot, has a creed in which he agrees 



W. F. CRAFTS' REPLY 9 

with somebody. The only question is to find by " reason, 
observation, and experience," which is the best. It 
would hardly be considered bigotry for a scientist to 
believe a few things as a creed of fixed scientific truths 
which no progress can ever erase, for instance, the rotund- 
ity and revolution of the earth, the attraction of the 
planets upon each other, and scores of other things which 
every scientist has held for many, years unchanged, and is 
sure are unchangeable because proved conclusively. There 
are some certainties in the science of religion, such as are 
referred to in the Apostles' Creed, which may, without any 
greater bigotry, be considered as proved and established. 
The Christian Church of to-day does not generally insist 
upon anything further than these few concrete facts of the 
Apostles' Creed " as essentials " in Christian belief. When 
Evangelical churches shout their watchword, " In essentials, 
unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity,'' it is 
as if a company of scientists should say, " On proved facts 
we will all agree, but in the realms of hypothesis and 
opinion, we will agree to disagree." 

But the special point we wish to notice is, that Mr. 
Ingersoll attacks creed with creed. He is as bigoted a par- 
tisan of his own creed as ever called hard names. The very 
heart of his creed seems to be the belief that his mission is 
to destroy the creed of everybody else. 

It is a suggestive fact that the naturally-gifted mind of 
Mr. Ingersoll, who declares that godless and soulless mate- 
rialism is the emancipator and inspirer of thought, should 
be able, in all the years which these ten lectures represent, 
to produce but ten ideas, the same ten ideas which made 
up his earliest lecture, years ago, appearing successively in 
each of the succeeding lectures, including that of to-day, 
there being no change save in the cap and bells of his 
jokes. Beading these ten ideas over and over for as many 



10 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

hours in going through these lectures, brought back a 
ludicrous scene in our college burial of mathematics when 
fifteen notes of Pleyel's hymn were played dolefully over 
and over again for nearly an hour, as marching music. 

In reading these lectures, which are but ten combinations 
and permutations of ten ideas, one is reminded also of the 
lecturer's own illustration of the boarding house keeper, 
who, for years, had no change of diet from hash, for every 
lecture is the same hash of ten ideas, changed only in 
the name and in the order of putting in the ten elements. 

ARTICLE I. 

First Point in the Ten — Sepulchral Hoots of the Ingersoll Owl — 
A Theological Rip Van Winkle. 

As in the beet hash of New England the blood red beet 
predominates and gives color to the whole, so the principal 
element in these lectures against Christianity is the blood 
of past persecutions by a corrupt part of the Church, for 
which true Christianity has no more responsibility than a 
loyal colonel in our war of 1776, or 1861, for the robberies 
and crimes of camp-followers or traitors. In every published 
lecture on religion, Mr. Ingersoll deliberately cites the acts 
of the Benedict Arnolds of the Christian army as repre- 
senting the Washingtons and Grants. He describes past 
counterfeits of religion as specimens of its accepted cur^ 
rency. It is as if one should attack present astronomers by 
relating ridiculous stories of the old astrologers, or assail 
present physicians by quoting the strange practices of the 
ancient alchemists. 

In one lecture — a fair representative of all in this respect 
— I found that in forty-three pages only two did not con- 
tain these stale references to past persecutions, except a few 
pages given to the trial of Professor Swing, which were 
equally stale as assailing chiefly abandoned features of 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 11 

human Calvinism. Past errors and follies of the human 
Calvinism, human Catholicism, and heathen religions are 
constantly spoken of as if vital elements of Christianity. 

Mr. Ingersoll ought to have a hymn to sing at the open- 
ing and close of his lectures, made on the pattern of that 
one whose first verse is: 

Go on, go on, go on, go on, 

Go on, go on, go on, 
Go on, go on, go on, go on, 

Go on, go on, go on, 

with forty-two verses more of the same, substituting " past 
persecutions," instead of " go on," which is too progressive 
for a " go-back " lecture. 

Mr. Ingersoll is a Rip Van Winkle in theology, who 
seems to have slept ever since x the days of persecution. 
He is a Sancho Panza who assails imaginary foes of his own 
making, and thinks he has captured the golden helmet of 
Christianity when he has only secured the abandoned brass 
kettle of old traditions and discarded superstitions. He is 
a Falstaff killing the dead Percy of past follies. His lectures 
bustle with the antiquated and misused words "priests," 
u dark ages," "witches," " fagots," " religious wars," "church 
fathers," " damned infants," " martyrs," " gods," etc., as 
if he were speaking in a heathen land, and also in some 
dead century. And he uses the past tense so exclusively 
in his " progressive " lectures that one would suppose 
English as well as Hebrew had no present tense. It 
must have been Mr. Ingersoll, in his boyhood, that came 
from his first hunt crying, " I 've shot a cherub," 
having mistaken an owl for a cherub, because of the 
wretched pictures ,of the latter on the old grave stones. 
Mr. Ingersoll logically destroys some Church owl of the 
dark ages, and because it corresponds with his own carica- 
ture of the Church thinks he has dethroned Christianity 



12 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

itself. Like Poe's " raven " who had but one word, " Never- 
more," Mr. Ingersoll is continually crying in the ears of 
the present that worn-out strain about abuses which we all 
condemn, ik Galileo-Servetus, Galileo-Servetus." 

This ten-idea champion of popular materialism, while 
talking of progress and condemning those who hold fast to 
things of the past, is nevertheless so largely devoted to 
showing his carefully preserved martyr-mummies from the 
long-past ages of persecution, that we find Mark Twain's 
question constantly arising at each new charge against 
Christianity: "Is he — is he dead?" and we are also 
tempted to cry out for a " fresh corpse " in place of 
these very dry and dead mummies of past abuses. To 
paraphrase the lecturer's own words, we want one pres- 
ent fact. We pass our hats through the lectures in vain 
for some present facts against pure Christianity, which he 
assumes to assail and overthrow. There is far more excuse 
for Thomas Paine, in an age when the old Calvinistic errors 
were largely held, and for Voltaire, surrounded by the 
superstitions of Romanism, misunderstanding Christianity, 
than for this modern lecturer, who very well knows that 
the caricatures which he represents as Christianity are 
very old pictures of its ancient camp-followers. 

ARTICLE II. 

Ingersoll Mistakes a Part for the Whole — Gross Misrepresen- 
tations. 

Article Second of Ingersollism, like unto the first, but 
with present instead of past tense, is about as follows: 
Christianity to-day is proved to be false by the present 
errors and abuses that are found in some of the churches. 

Romish superstitions and the errors of those who have 
grossly misinterpreted the Bible as a support of slavery, 
polygamy, etc., are continually used by this champion of 



W, F. (WAFTS* KEPLT. 1^ 

" liberty of thought, " and "charity" and "brotherhood," 
as representing true Christianity to-day, which is quite as 
honorable as if a man should attack the principles of med- 
icine by citing the tricks of quacks. An examination of 
the hull of the Great Eastern found adhering to the iron- 
plates of the bottom an enormous multitude of mussels, 
whose weight is estimated at three hundred tons. The 
great ship has been carrying on her hull a burden equal t< i 
full cargoes for six or eight sailing ships. 

Suppose I should show you a few of those barnacles as 
specimens of what the Great Eastern is made of, and then 
denounce its builders as fools? Mr. Ingersoll is constantly 
confounding barnacles of some " church " with Christian- 
ity. Suppose I should take the belts and whips of torture 
that are used by Romanists in Mexico and show them in 
lectures as specimens of the barbarism of Congregational - 
ists and Methodists? It is certainly most palpable unfair- 
ness for Mr. Ingersoll to use the word "gods" indiscrimi- 
nately of heathen and Christian objects of worship, and to 
employ the words, " The Church," as if there were no false 
or true, past or present in connection with it, and as if its 
meaning were as much a unit as " The Moon." So also he 
unfairly classes all ministers as "priests." It w T ould be 
quite as fair to speak of all "medicine men," past and 
present, savage and civilized, under the words, " The 
Doctors." 

AMT1CLE III. 

The Great Ingersoll Boomerang — How it "Works — Further Mis- 
representations Carefully Examined. 

Far less prominent, but ever present, is the third element 
in Ingersollism — an oft-recurring moan — " Infidels to-day 
are martyrs at whom men cast epithets, but not ballots." 

The defeated infidel politician appears as regularly and 



14 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

revengefully in every lecture (indirectly, of course) as the 
misanthropic Byron shows himself in each of his poems as 
the real hero under the various names of " Childe Harold " : 
"Don Juan," "Corsair,-' etc. Pie who cries out against 
the past for calling infidels by hard names hurls in the 
more kindly present more anathemas than any other Pope. 

" You are an infidel." 

" You're a bigot ! Arn't you ashamed to be calling 
names, you old hypocrite?" 

In this debate of Mr. Ingersoll's bigotry with the big- 
otry of the past, a printer might fitly misprint the "pros 
and cons," " pigs and cows." It is like the English lady 
who criticised an American friend for saying, at a mistake 
in croquet, " What a horrid scratch," and when asked 
what would have been better, replied, "You might have 
said, 'What a beastly fluke.' " It is not strange that the 
people will not elect to represent them in politics, one who 
so audaciously misrepresents them, as does Mr. Ingersoll 
in nearly every attempt to declare the belief of Christians. 

Misrepresenting Bible Passages. 

Dr. Ryder, Prof. Swing, and Dr. Herford, have abund- 
antly shown his numerous and inexcusable misrepresenta- 
tions of Bible passages, to which may be added another 
more atrocious, if possible, the implication that the perse- 
cutions of Saul of Tarsus, and the adulteries of Solomon, 
are a part of the Christian system, and also that Jephthah 
really killed his daughter as a sacrifice, which the Bible 
does not declare, nor any Christian believe, and the mis- 
interpretation of the passage about women keeping silence 
in the churches, which the Christian Church of to-day con- 
siders of only temporary force, a command to Corinth, and 
not to Christendom, no more binding upon us than Paul's 
request that Timothy should bring his cloak that was left 



W. F. (J HAFTS' RBPLT. 15 

at Troas. It is a kindred misrepresentation to say the 
assertion that those who tortured the martyrs were the 
same ones who made the Bible — an assertion which his- 
tory clearly refutes, as the Old Testament was ar- 
ranged in its present form 388 B. C, and the New 
Testament was collected as it is at present before the days 
of persecution by the church began. 

It is also a misrepresentation, not only of the Bible, out 
of the common principles of interpretation in every 
department of literature, to intimate that an explanation 
of passages as poetic and figurative, is unfair and begging 
the question. Suppose we should put a literal interpreta- 
tion upon the tropical figures of Mr. Ingersoll's eloquence, 
and when he speaks of the sun's rays " as arrows from the 
quiver of the sun," declare him an ignorant idolator, who 
thinks the sun an intelligent being who has caught the 
passion for archery. 

Sun and Moon Standing Still. 

It is equally absurd for him to interpret the poem about 
the sun and moon standing still by the rules of prose. Mr. 
Ingersoll also says, poetically: "Think of that wonderful 
chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine 
tragedy of Hamlet." Suppose we should interpret that 
sentence as fact rather than figure, and say that Mr. Inger- 
soll believes that by the combination of certain liquids and 
solids in the chemist's retort this marvelous literary pro- 
duction was created! It would be quite as reasonable as 
to insist upon absolute literalness in the bold figures of 
Oriental eloquence and poetry. 

Mr. Ingersoll also misrepresents the Christian's Sunday 
in the home, speaking of it as " a day too good for a child 
to be happy in," saying: " The idea, that any God would 
hate to hear a child laugh." We all know (?) that in the. 



16 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

Christian homes of to-day the smiles and laughter of 
childhood are strictly forbidden, and any one who smiles in 
church is carried out by the police ( ?). 

Hell. 

Especially does Mr. Ingersoll continually and grossly 
misrepresent Christianity in regard to the conditions by 
which men are believed to bring themselves to Hell. Hear 
him: " It is infinitely absurd to suppose that a God would 
address a communication to intelligent beings, and yet 
make it a crime, to be punished in eternal flames, for them 
to use their intelligence for the purpose of understanding 
His communication. Neither can they show why any one 
should be punished, either in this world or another, for 
acting honestly in accordance with reason; and yet a doc- 
trine with every possible argument against it has been, 
and still is, believed and defended by the entire orthodox 
world. If I should say ninety-nine in a hundred go down 
to Hell, I should have the support of the entire orthodox 
world. You can see for yourselves the justice of damn- 
ing a man if his parents happened to baptize him in the 
wrong way. Think of >a God who will damn his children 
for the expression of an honest thought!" 

Few, if any, intelligent Christians teach that a man must 
accept their denominational creed in all its details in order 
to be saved, as the careless critics of Christianity so often 
assert, but rather all evangelical Christians repeat the New 
Testament conditions of salvation, " Believe on the Lord 
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved," and declare nega- 
tively, not as has been said by Mr. Ingersoll, said by 
infidels, that all who do not believe will not be saved, but 
rather in the words of Martin Luther, " No man shall die 
in his sins, except him who, through disbelief, thrusts from 
him the forgiveness of sin, which in the name of Jesus is 



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W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 17 

offered him." It is the firm of Ignorance and Bigotry that 
declare that evangelical Christianity teaches that a man can 
not be saved who does not believe in its statement of the 
Trinity and its interpretations of the Bible. 
C He also utterly misrepresents the Christian conception 
' of saving faith as ignoring reason and action, both of which 
it includes, and as resting chiefly on a book or a creed as 
its end, rather than on the person, Christ. Every church 
teaches that intelligent faith and faithfulness toward Christ 
(not creeds in detail) is the condition of salvation. " Faith," 
says Bishop "Wightman, "believes on competent testi- 
mony what it could not otherwise know." Or, as Dr. 
Arnold says: " Faith is reason leaning on God." Reason 
is the foundation of belief. 

The Present vs. the Future. 

Another of the almost countless misrepresentations of 
religion by Mr. Ingersoll, is the frequent statement that 
Christianity is wholly devoted to the future, and ignores man's 
present needs, which reminds us that it was Thomas Paine 
(?) and not the Bible that said, "Pure religion and unde- 
fined before God the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless 
and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself 
unspotted from the world." And you have all observed 
that the organized societies and benevolences, by which 
orphans, and the aged, and the helpless, are aided in asy- 
lums and refuges, were not (?) established by this Chris- 
tianity which " ignores man's present needs, and devotes 
itself exclusively to the future." Christian ministers never 
preach on combining works with faith, or showing charac- 
ter by conduct, or loving their neighbors as themselves. 
Mr. Ingersoll declares that a little restitution is better than 
a" great deal of repentance, and we have noticed that when 
Ingersoll has delivered a lecture or two in our large cities. 



18 MISTAKES OF INOERSOLL. 

those among his hearers who have defrauded others have, 
at once, begun the work of restitution (?) by sending back 
the money they had stolen from employers, creditors and 
customers. (?) Mr. Moody, who preaches repentance as 
well as restitution, of course (?) has no such results follow- 
ing his work, as he proclaims the Christianity whose entire 
interest is in the future life. (?) You smile at this practical 
test of Mr. Ingersoll's theory, in view of the fact that we 
have no record of a single instance where one of his lectures 
has led to the restitution of stolen property; while such 
cases are constantly occurring in connection with the work 
of Mr. Moody and other Christians. Several very notable 
ones have come under my own immediate notice. 

It is an equally astounding, barefaced misrepresentation, 
or to put it in fewer letters, false, when he states that all of 
the orthodox religion of the day is Calvinistic. Part of 
the so-called Calvinistic churches are not Calvinistic in the 
usual sense of the word, and we had fondly dreamed that 
there was such a body of Christians as Methodists who are 
distinctly anti-Calvinistic, and hold the first place in num- 
bers among Protestant Churches in America. 

It is also a misrepresentation to say, " Whoever thinks 
he has found it all out, he is orthodox," for every orthodox 
pulpit constantly preaches the duty of growth, intellectual 
and spiritual. Mr. Ingersoll declares that Protestants to- 
day would persecute, as in the past, if they had the power, 
a statement in which he assumes the role of the prophet, 
and shows the profundity of his insight into the spirit of 
Christianity to-day, which binds up the broken-hearted 
and ministers to the troubled and sorrowing. It is cunning 
sophistry to say that every one is opposed to the union of 
Church and state, because they know that the Church 
could not be trusted with power, a statement which obtains 
its force by suppressing the very important fact that the 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 19 

Church when united with political power draws into itself 
unprincipled politicians, and becomes entirely a different 
body through the opportunities it offers to selfishness and 
ambition. It is also a misrepresentation to say that " Prot- 
estants stand up for Protestant persecutors of the past," 
for all Protestant churches of to-day condemn the burning 
of Servetus and such acts as much as any one. It is also 
a misrepresentation by holding back half the truth to tell 
us of that base or mistaken element of the Church that 
made the rack and not of that other noble element of the 
Church that was upon the rack, for the martyrs were sel- 
dom if ever infidels. 

Ingersoll's Horrible Estimate of Truth. 

Mr. Ingersoll, in his recent lecture on " Skulls," twice 
said that truth was not worth a little suffering, that one 
had better lie or recant than suffer a little pain, or lose a 
drop of blood. He would " turn Judas Iscariot to his own 
soul " to save a thumb. This significant item as to his 
whole estimate of truth helps us to account for the whole- 
sale manufacture of falsehoods in his lectures. 

Mr. Ingersoll's most gross misrepresentation is the 
habitual custom of telling only one side of a fact, quoting 
difficult Bible passages but never sublime ones, bad cus- 
toms of the Church but never good ones, defects in Chris- 
tians but never excellences. When Mr. Ingersoll speaks 
of " a lawyer whipping his child for holding back part of 
the truth," he describes his own partisan and one-sided 
method, as Professor Swing has shown, attacking Christian- 
ity as the hired attorney of infidelity, or the hired cam- 
paigner of the an ti- Christian party who is to present only 
one side. This, too, from a man who claims that infidelity 
unfetters thought and broadens mind. 



20 MISTAKES OB 1 1NGERSOLL. 

The Bible the Best of Books, and Christ the Best of Men. 

Mr. Ingersoll also misrepresents the differences among 
the various forms of Christianity. All men of broad 
scholarship of the last and best century who have written 
on religion, both skeptics and Christians, agree on two 
things — the Bible as the best of books, and Christ as the 
best of men. So much at least may be said to be indorsed 
by all scholarship, and when a man rests down upon these 
two truths as proved and established, and follows them out 
into the truths to which they lead, he will not be likely to 
go far astray, for if Christ is confessedly the greatest and 
best of men, the u Teacher sent from God," then His 
teachings are to be accepted, and those teachings are the 
foundations of all essential Christianity; and if the Bible 
is the best of books, the moral and spiritual guide of man, 
then its teachings are to be carefully read and deeply 
regarded, and all who take this book as life's guide book 
will be led into all truths of Christianity that are funda- 
mental and important. 

All Christians, Romanists and Protestants, agree that 
Christ is the living embodiment and pattern of Christian 
manhood, and that the Bible, at least, contains the " Word 
of God." All evangelical Christians agree on that broad 
and simple platform of the Apostles Creed, and declare 
not "many," but one way to Heaven, and that not by 
"believing an incomprehensible creed," but by faith and 
faithfulness of intellect, will, heart and life, toward the 
person, Jesus Christ. Two quotations fairly represent all 
the evangelical churches on this matter. Bishop Whipple, 
an Episcopalian, recently remarked, " As the grave grows 
nearer, my theology is growing strangely simple, and it 
begins and ends with Christ, as the only refuge for the 
lost." Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, a Presbyterian, when 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 21 

dying said ; ^ All my theology is reduced to this narrow- 
compass, ' Jesus Christ came into the world to save sin- 
ners.' " Mr. Ingersoll, misrepresents the most familiar 
facts when he says, " Just in proportion as the human race 
has advanced, the church has lost power. There is no 
exception to this rule." It is a fact so familiar that every 
intelligent child knows it, that Christianity was never so 
powerful in the world, as to-day — never had so many fol- 
lowers. By the multiplied agencies of church work, six 
thousand are converted per day — two Pentecosts every 
twenty-four hours. 

Mr. Ingersoll misrepresents not only the Bible and 
church history, by leaving out all that would not help his 
theories, and stating one half the truth, but he also mis- 
represents the Declaration of Independence as "retiring 
God from politics," as if the words were not there, "the 
station to which the laws of nature, and nature's God entitle 
them," "All men are endowed by their Creator with cer- 
tain inalienable rights " — " and for the support of this 
declaration, and in a firm reliance upon Divine Providence, 
we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, 
and our sacred honor." It is surely infinitely absurd to 
expect a man broadly and truly to represent us in politics, 
who so inexcusably and grossly misrepresents us in religion. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Something New if True — Infidelity the Essential Factor in Pro- 
gressive Civilization — But Coleridge, Wm. H. Seward, 
Bismarck, and other great Statesmen can not see it — 
Civilization goes only with Christianity. 

The fourth article in Ingersollism is as follows: " The 
civilization of this country is not the child of faith, but of 
unbelief — the result of free thought. But for the efforts 
of a few brave infidels, the church would have taken the 



22 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

world back to the midnight of barbarism." How ignorant 
we have all been! Luther, who led Europe out of the 
Dark Ages, was not, it seems, a child of faith, but of free 
thought (?) and Paul also, who brought civilization into 
barbarous Europe, peopled with savage tribes, as 
described by Julius Csesar in his Commentaries. The 
transformation of savage Gaul and Britain into civilized 
France and England was accomplished by the efforts of 
" unbelief." (?) 

Long ago, Christianity had a contest with Atheism, Pan- 
theism, and Culture, as to which was the best civilizer. 
Christianity selected Europe, and gave the other three con- 
testants Asia, with several centuries the start. Atheism, 
or Buddhism, which ignores all spiritual things and devotes 
itself to the present life, has operated for thousands of 
years in India. Pantheis.n, or Brahminism, made its 
experiment in the same country; and Culture obtained 
exclusive control of China, ruling both church and state. 
As a result, in accordance with Mr. Ingersoll's theory, these 
elements of Ingersollism have developed a lofty civiliza- 
tion (?) in China and India, given education to woman, 
torn away the veil of her slavish seclusion, made her the 
equal of man, treated female infants as honorably as the 
boys, developed a high morality in the community, 
and supplied the world with its standard literature, its 
ioremost science, and its chief inventions.(?) On the other 
hand, Christianity came into barbarous Europe a dozen 
centuries later, caused the degradation and enslavement of 
women and children, (?) repressed scientific investigation, (?) 
prevented invention, (?) checked thought, (?) and thus hin- 
dered literary activity, and, by the barbarism of the Bible, 
" brought bondage to man, woman, and child " in body and 
brain.(?) If the facts do not correspond to these legitimate 
deductions from Mr. Ingersoll's theories as to the effect of 



W. F. C BAFTS' MEPLF. 23 

atheistic culture, on the one hand, and Christianity, on the 
other, upon national life, so much the worse for the facts. 

Mr. Ingersoll says much against the wars of Christian 
nations. He forgets that peace societies and arbitration 
were never known outside of Christianity, and that wars in 
Christian lands are the gradually disappearing remains of 
previous barbarism. He talks of science and invention as 
opening up this era! How does it happen that all this is 
in Christian rather than in heathen lands? He talks of 
charity and benevolence of infidels! Why is it that all 
benevolent societies are Christian, and that Thomas Paine 
halls can not be supported ? He talks of liberty of speech 
and thought and government! Why is it that such liberty 
is only found in Christian countries? He has much to say 
of the barbarous age of dug-outs, tom-toms, and wooden 
plows! Has he not seen in the World's Expositions these 
very things as representing nations to-day, that have not 
risen from their primitive degradation and ignorance 
because Christianity has not yet reached them? 

As to the relation of the Bible to civilization, Samuel 
Taylor Coleridge declares that " for more than a thousand 
years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand 
with civilization, science, law, in short, with moral and 
intellectual cultivation, always supporting, and often lead- 
ing the way." 

William H. Seward says, "The whole hope of human 
progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the 
Bible." 

Bismarck utters a similar sentiment, as quoted in his 
recent biography: "How, without faith in a revealed 
religion, in a God who wills what is good, in a Supreme 
.Judge, and a future life, men can live together harmoniously 
— each doing his duty and letting every one else to do his — 
I do not understand." Similar sentiments are uttered by 



24 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

the leading statesmen of all lands, the unanimous verdict 
of statesmanship being that civilization can not be carried 
forward without Christianity. 

ARTICLE V. 

Marvelous Power of Time and Circumstance — Tragic Effect of 

Iso-thermal Lines — Peoria Mud Necessarily the Seventh 

Heaven as Ingersoll Sees it. 

The fifth article of Ingersollism is, that gods and men 
are but evolutions of matter and circumstance, the differ- 
ence between heathen gods and the Christian's God being 
the result of a difference in their worshippers, and the dif- 
ference in men being the result of varying soils and sur- 
roundings. He says : " No god was ever in advance of the 
nation that created him." In answer to this last statement, 
which is true, of course, of all imaginary deities, but not of 
the One True God, it is only necessary to ask any candid 
and intelligent man to read the description of God given 
in the Bible, where both Testaments declare Him to be 
"merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in 
goodness and truth, but will by no means spare the guilty," 
and then say whether this God is nothing more than the reflec- 
tion of the stiff-necked and perverse people who held to this 
conception of Deity. The fact is, God as described in the 
Bible is infinitely loftier and purer than the Jewish people, 
or any people of any age. It is still more absurd, if pos- 
sible, for Mr. Ingersoll to assert that " men are but the 
creatures ol their surroundings, made what they are wholly 
by material causes, such as soil and climate." It is one of 
the characteristic contradictions of history, such as are found 
so frequently in Mr. Ingersoll's lectures, when he asserts 
that great minds have never been found except in the " lands 
of respectable winters," with the intimation that no great 
achievements in art or literature are possible in warm 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 25 

Oriental lands. As if Babylon, and Nineveh, and Egypt 
had not been in early ages the universities of the world. 
Carlyle must have been very much deceived when he declared 
Job of the Oriental land of Uz to be the greatest poet the 
world has known. Mohammed of those warm lands was 
certainly great, even though wrong, and scores of others, 
equally eminent, might be mentioned, although, of course, 
it is evident that greatness of men or peoples in tropical 
lands is rather in spite of circumstances than by their help. 
Mr. Ingersoll in his lecture on "Man, Woman, and 
Child," speaking of one of these warm countries as the rep- 
resentative of all, says: "You might go there with five 
thousand Congregational preachers, five thousand deacons, 
five thousand professors in colleges, five thousand of the 
solid men of Boston and their wives, settle them all, and 
you will see the second generation riding upon a mule bare- 
back, no shoes, a grapevine whip, with a rooster under each 
arm going to a cock fight on Sunday. Such is the influence 
of climate." But like most- of Mr. Ingersoll's theories, this 
one is unfortunately the direct opposite of facts. The 
Sandwich Islands have all these disadvantages of climate, 
and fifty years ago were plunged in the deepest barbarism, 
with all the vices of savage life ; but to-day, as all well- 
informed persons know, they are as truly civilized as any 
land, with industries, education, protection of life and 
property, equal to what is found in our own favored coun- 
try. And this is all due, as King Kalikua said in New 
York, to the Christianizing of his people. Indeed, Mr. 
Ingersoll contradicts his own theory as to the dependence 
of the individual upon surroundings in his lectures on 
Humboldt and Paine, both of whom he represents as 
becoming great in spite of surroundings that would natu- 
rally have led in the opposite direction, thus involuntarily 
recognizing something in man deeper than mere physical 
evolution. 



26 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

The whole absurd theory of individuals and nations being 
wholly dependent upon soil, and climate, and surroundings 
for their character, is fairly represented in the following 
incident: 

" Pa," said a little six-year old, " what makes me grow ?" 

" Why, the bread and potato I feed you with." 

" Does potatoes make our pig grow, too?" 

" Yes." 

" Then, what makes him be a pig and me be a boy?" 

That boy's simple question explodes all the theories of 
evolution. 

ARTICLE VI. 

Law is Ingersoll's God. 

The sixth article of Ingersollism is, " I believe in law, the 
Almighty maker of Heaven and earth." One might as 
well say that the United States Constitution made our 
country, or try to rule the land by laws without enforcers. 

That the universe is governed according to a system of 
law is recognized by Christians as much as by any one, and 
the laws of the Bible are not new arbitrary enactments, but 
recognitions and proclamations of that part of the law-sys- 
tem of the universe that relates to religion and morality. 
Laws of spirit are as eternal as laws of matter, datura? 
science proclaims the latter, religious science the former. 

ARTICLE VII. 

Liberty and Infidelity — What De Tocqueville Says About it. 

The seventh article is made up of the following statements: 
• " All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. The 
doubter, the investigator, the infidel, have been the saviours 
of liberty." 

Mr. Ingersoll, when talking of liberty contradicts what 
he himself has said of law, and fails to remind his hearers 



W. -P. CRAFTS' REPLY. 27 

and readers that the circle of law bounds on every side the 
privileges of liberty, that one has liberty only within the 
range of propriety, and that all beyond that is license. He 
also forgets the very evident fact that the prevailing ideas of 
personal liberty in the world are due to the general dissem- 
ination, by Christianity, of the truth that a man is a soul as 
well as a body. Wherever men are regarded as mere phys- 
ical beings, with no life deeper than the bodily life, the 
stronger will enslave the weaker — woman, child and captive. 
When the idea that each man is an immortal soul takes 
hold upon man, with it there comes the idea of individual 
rights. If Ingersollism should ever persuade a civilized 
people that man has no soul, this form of bondage of the 
weaker to the stronger will be resumed. Not soil, but soul, 
is the secret of liberty. 

Even Mr. Frothingham recently declared that the Bible is 
a democratic book, and that we get out of it our ideas of 
equality. He remembered what Mr. Iugersoll seems to for- 
get, that all through the Bible, the idea of personal and relig- 
ious liberty is found, especially in those words of the Apostles 
to the rulers who attempted to tyrannize over their con- 
sciences, u We ought to obey God rather than man," which 
has fitly been termed the concisest of all statements of the 
principles of personal liberty. We may show this relation of 
religion to liberty in the words of the greatest modern 
writer upon such questions, De Tocqueville, who says, 
" Bible Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its 
conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of 
its claims." 

ARTICLE VIII. 
Woman — Ingersoll's Theory at Variance with Facts. 

The eighth article of Ingersollism, is in regard to woman, 
and is as follows: "As long as woman regards the Bible 
as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. 



28 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

The Bible was not written by a woman. Within its lids 
there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her." 

You have all doubtless observed that in heathen coun- 
tries, where the Bible has not yet come with its enslaving 
(?) influence woman has (?) liberty and honor, and educa- 
tion, and opportunities of public activity and benevolence 
(?), but in Christian lands she is veiled, degraded, shut out 
of sight and restrained from education (?). I have always 
observed, as a pastor, that it is the religious, and church- 
going husbands that tyrannize over their wives as "bosses," 
and deny them their liberties of conscience, and other 
rights. (?) 

You smile at the absurd statement, knowing that the 
"heathen at home," who as husbands are harsh and brutal 
to the wives they have promised to cherish, are frequently 
ardent believers in Ingersollism, and seldom in any way 
connected with even nominal Christianity, while every 
school boy is familiar with the fact that woman, in all 
except Christian lands, is hardly better than a slave, nota- 
bly so, in that land where Ingersollism under the name of 
Buddhism has the controlling influence. Mr. Ingersoll 
utters many true sentiments about the family, but all of 
these he learned of Christianity, not from China, or Egypt. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Ingersoll's Theory of Childhood — Some of His .Little Stories — The 

Whole Subject Carefully Examined — Significant Incident 

in the Life of Abraham Lincoln. 

The ninth article of Ingersollism is a theory of child- 
nood which attacks the principles of sound government and 
health even more than religion: " Do not have it in your 
mind that you must govern them ; that they (children) must 
obey. Let your children eat what they desire. They know 
what they wish to eat. Let them begin at which end of 
the dinner they please." 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. % 29 

Such a theory is worthy of nothing more than the smile 
with which you hear it. It is all answered in the following 
representative fact of childhood: A little bit of a girl 
wanted more and more buttered toast, till she was told that 
too much would make her sick. Looking wistfully at the 
dish for a moment, she thought she saw a way out of her 
difficulty, and exclaimed, " Well, give me annuzer piece, 
and send for the doctor!" 

Mr. Ingersoll, in connection with his theory of child- 
hood, often refers to the fact, that he leaves his pocket- 
book around where his children can help themselves to 
whatever they wish, and urges the same course upon all 
parents. It is said that one of the lecturer's admirers, being 
convinced that this was the correct theory, determined to 
give up punishing his child, and try the new plan. Accord- 
ingly, he said to his boy, " John, I am convinced I have 
been taking the wrong course to try to make you a better 
boy. I am going to trust you more, and give up whip- 
pings. I am going away for a few days, and I have left 
my pocket-book in the top drawer of the bureau. Help 
yourself to money whenever you need it." After a few 
days the father returned to. his home, late at night. As he 
opened the door he stumbled over a large canoe in the 
entry, and was then attacked by a large bull-dog that his 
boy had bought. Entering the boy's room, he found it 
hung round with guns, and fishing poles, and daggers, with 
another canoe, and several small dogs — his pocket-book lying 
empty on the top of the bureau. He is now less enthusi- 
astic in regard to Ingersoll's knowledge of domestic gov- 
ernment. 

The leading point which Mr. Ingersoll endeavors to 
make in connection with his lecture on Thomas Paine is 
that the Bible shocks a child, and, therefore, can't be true. 
You have all observed how much children are shocked as 



30 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

they gather about the mother's knees in the twilight, and 
hear her tell the stories of Jesus, and Joseph, and Moses, 
and Samuel, and Daniel (?). As to the relation of the 
Bible to childhood and home life, let me quote the opinion 
of several eminent men, mostly skeptics, for whom even 
Mr. Ingersoll cherishes the highest regard: 

Thomas Jefferson, speaking of the Bible and home life, 
says: " I have always said, and always will say, that the 
studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better 
citizens, better fathers, and better husbands." 

John Quincy Adams says: " So great is my veneration 
for the Bible, that .the earlier my children begin to read it, 
the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove 
useful citizens to their country and respectable members of 
society." 

Theodore Parker says: " There is not a boy on the hills 
of ~New England, not a girl born in the filthiest cellar which 
disgraces a capital in Europe, and cries to God against 
the barbarism of modern civilization; not a boy nor a girl 
all Christendom through, but their lot is made better by 
that great book." 

Diderot, the French philosopher and skeptic, was wont 
to make this confession: " No better lessons than those 
of the Bible can I teach mv child." 

Huxley, in an address upon education, says: "I have 
always been strongly in favor of secular education, in the 
sense of education without theology; but I must confess I 
have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what 
practical measures the religious feeling, which is the essen- 
tial basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present 
utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without 
the use of the Bible. The pagan moralists lack life and 
color, and even the noble stoic, Marcus Aurelius, is too high 
and refined for an ordinary child. Take the Bible as a 



W. F. CRAFTS' BE PLY. 31 

whole, make the severest deductions which fair criticism 
can dictate, and there still remains in this old literature a 
vast residuum of moral beauty and grandeur. By the study 
of what other book could children be so humanized? If 
Bible reading is not accompanied by constraint and solem- 
nity, I do not believe there is anything in which children 
take more pleasure." 

"What would " shock the mind of a child " would be to hear 
Mr. Ingersoll excuse them for telling a lie, in order to 
escape a whipping. "What would shock a child would be 
to hear Mr. Ingersoll uttering profanity 

"What would shock the mind of a child would be to 
hear Mr. Ingersoll telling to a crowded audience with a 
smile of approval the story of a boy's oath. 



Speaking of swearing reminds me of that incident of 
Abraham Lincoln, whom Mr. Ingersoll calls " the grandest 
man ever President of the United States," who said to a 
person sent to him by one of the Senators, and who,, 
in conversation, uttered an oath, " I thought the Sen- 
ator had sent me a gentleman; I see I was mistaken. 
There is the door, and I bid you good-day." I hold in my 
hand the last report of the New York Society for the Pre- 
vention of Cruelty to Children. Of course, the bruised and 
beaten little ones, here described, were the victims of 
cruelty in Christian homes (?). Their fathers and mothers 
had taken too much religion (?), had become brutalized by 
reading the Bible ( ?), and hence abused the children by 
their own fireside until the law was compelled to interfere 
for their defense ('?). 



32 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

In my work as a member of the Citizen's League for the 
suppression of the sale of liquors to minors, I have noticed 
that this supreme cruelty to children — selling them in their 
immature years the liquors that make them self-destroyers, 
violators of the public peace, and candidates for drunkards' 
graves — is perpetrated by Christian men, not by the infidels 
who applaud so lustily at Mr. Ingersoll's lectures (?). Here 
I am reminded of the published report, which seems well 
authenticated, that Mr. Ingersoll in his childhood lived in 
one of those exceptional homes where nominal Christianity 
was combined with harshness, cruelty and bigotry. If so, 
this would be some slight excuse for his present conduct, 
were it not for the fact that maturer years have given him 
abundant opportunity to see the bright and sunny side of 
Christian gentleness in other homes. And there are no 
true homes that do not owe their existence to the influence 
of Christianity upon the family relation. 

Having myself made childhood a special study for several 
years, I find that the degree of recognition given to the 
opinions and importance of childhood in various ages and 
•countries, is exactly in proportion to the degree of Chris- 
tianity there, children being scarcely noticed in heathen 
lands, either in poetry, or history, or ethics, while the Bible 
religion has always given childhood an exceedingly prom- 
inent place. All the attention given to the education and 
•development of the little ones is but the starlight that 
shines down upon us from the manger of the God-child. 

AMTICLE X. 

Ingersoll Says Christianity Fetters Thought — The Bible and a 
Host of Distinguished Men Say Otherwise. 

The tenth article of Ingersoilism is the frequent asser- 
tion that Christianity fetters thought, while infidelity 
emancipates it, in such passages as these: u In all ages* 



W. F. GRAFTS' REPLY. 3$ 

reason has been regarded as the enemy of religion." "The 
gods dreaded education and knowledge then (in the time of 
the Garden of Eden) just as they do now." "For ages 
a deadly conflict has been waged by a few brave men of 
thought and genius, on the one side, and the great, 
ignorant, religious mass, on the other. The few have 
said: 'Think.' The many have said: ' Believe.' " 

In order to ascertain what freedom and power of thought 
materialism had given to the mind of Mr. Ingersoll, I 
made special examination of the logic in the lecture oq 
" The Gods," and found there, in a very short time, one or 
more specimens of all the fallacies laid down in the text- 
books of logic. " Waiter," said John Randolph, at a cer- 
tain hotel, "if this is coffee, bring me tea; if this is tea ? 
bring me coffee" And so we say, if this is the " power of 
thought," give us weakness. 

Instead of the Bible forbidding us to think, as Inger- 
sollism so often declares, it is full of ringing appeals to 
"reason," "think," "consider," "ponder," "prove all 
things." 

Prov. 26 : 16 : " The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven 
men that can render treason." 

Eccl. 7: 25: "I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to* 
seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness- 
of folly, even of foolishness and madness." 

. Isa. 1 : 18 : " Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord ; 
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they 
be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." 

Matt. 22 : 42 : " What think ye of Christ ?" 

Acts 17 : 2: " Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three 
Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures." 

Acts 18:4: " He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and per- 
suaded the Jews and the Greeks." 

Acts 18 : 19 : " And he came to Ephesus, and left them there ; but he 
himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews." 

Acts 24 : 25 : " And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and 
judgment to come, Felix trembled." 

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34 MISTAKES OF INGEBSOLL. 

Rom. 12 : 1 : "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of 
God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable 
unto God, which is your reasonable service." 

Phil. 4:8: ''Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatso- 
ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things 
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good 
report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these 
things" 

1 Thess. 5:21: " Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good." 

Let us look into biography, and make a practical test of 
this theory that the Bible fetters thought. If so, those 
who believe and love it will not be strong and leading 
thinkers. Let us apply the test in the ranks of science. 

A Cloud of Witnesses. 

Professor Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard College, has 
recently completed a very remarkable course of lectures at 
the Lowell Institute, Boston, on "Ideality in Science." 
Professor Pierce, who is now in his seventieth year, is, 
perhaps, the most eminent mathematical scholar in this 
country, and the author of some of the most profound 
investigations and speculations that have been made in the 
realm of astronomical science. This man of mighty thought 
must have been emancipated and inspired by infidelity ( ?). 
This scholar, whose mind may be supposed to feed on fact, 
holds an unquestioning faith in a personal God and the 
immortal life. 

The late Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, 
was one of the broadest and best of scientific thinkers 
^because infidelity gave him freedom of thought (?). No, 
he was a sweet-spirited Christian in his daily life. 

Sir David Brewster, another eminent scientist, said of 
his Christian experience: "I have had this light for many 
years, and oh! how bright it is to me." 

Professor Silliman, who is unsurpassed in his scientific 



W. F. G BAFTS' REPLY. 35 

department, must also be classed under the head of " the 
ignorant religious mass," for he was another of the very 
many Christian scientists, whom the world has ignorantly(?) 
supposed a thinker, in spite of Mr. Ingersoll's theory of 
faith as being a mental bondage. He says: " I can truly 
declare that, in the study and exhibition of science to my 
pupils and fellow men, I have never forgotten to give all 
honor and glory to the infinite Creator — happy if I might 
be the honored interpreter of a portion of his works, and 
of the beautiful structure and beneficent laws discovered 
therein by the labors of many illustrious predecessors." 
We might add scores of others in each department of sci- 
ence, who have found no discord between the Word and 
world of God. 

Who are the four greatest thinkers in the realm of states- 
manship of this century? Daniel Webster, Gladstone, 
Thiers, and Bismarck. All of them, of course, are enabled 
to be thus broad and prominent as national thinkers by the 
power of infidelity ( ?). JN~o, each one of them is most posi- 
tive in his Christian belief. 

Webster declares the grandest thought which ever entered 
his mind was that of " personal accountability to God." 

Gladstone gives much of time and attention to religious 
writing. 

Thiers says, in his last days: "I often invoke that God 
in whom I am happy to believe, who is denied by fools and 
ignorant people, but in whom the enlightened man finds 
his consolation and hope." 

Bismarck is called, in derision, " the God-fearing man," 
in reference to his well-known religious principles. (Busch's 
Bismarck, p. 200). 

We might add to these Charles Sumner, who called 
Christianity the u true religion " and " our faith," and whose 
speeches constantly recognize God and Christianity. 



36 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

Who are the leading literary characters of the century? 
Victor Hugo, what of him ? Did you ever read his chapter 
on prayer in Les Miserables, and his grand tribute to 
immortality, uttered as a rebuke to a company of French 
physicians, a few years ago? Moore — have you read his 
" ParadisS and the Peri," the Gospel of repentance, and do 
you know him as the author of the hymn, " Come, ye Dis- 
consolate?" Walter Scott — have you read his translation 
of "Dies Irse," uttered so devoutly in his last days: 

" Oli ! in that day, that dreadful day, 
"When Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
Be Thou, oh Christ, the sinner's st ly, 
When Heaven and earth shall pass away." 

And Shakspeare, whom Mr. Ingersoll accounts one of 
the grandest of human minds, was great enough to believe 
in the Bible. And so Thackeray, Whittier, Dickens, Gold- 
smith, Longfellow, and Irving were intellectual believers in 
Christianity. 

The following men, also lacking the freedom and power 
of thought that comes by materialism (?) became mentally 
so weak ( ?) that they declared, in varying terms, after read- 
ing largely in all departments of literature, that the Bible 
is the best book in the world: Sir Walter Scott, Sir Wil- 
liam Jones, George Gilfillan, Milton, Pollok,, Coleridge, 
Collins, Bacon, John Adams, Napoleon, James Freeman 
Clarke, Lange, Kitto, Robertson. And Channing put the 
Gospels where these others place the whole Bible — above 
all other literature. 

The following persons strongly commend the Bible as a 
whole: Dr. Samuel Johnson, Carlyle, Dryden, Young,, 
Cowper, Locke, Newton, Seward, Dawson, Franklin, John 
Quincy Adams, Bellows, Bartol, Theodore Parker, Rous- 
seau, Guizot, Bunsen, Story, Webster, Diderot, Matthew- 
Arnold, and Huxley. 



W. F. CRAFTS' BE PLY. > 37 

The following persons among many others declare that 
they found in the Bible, not fetters for thought, but their 
strongest inspiration to thought : Daniel Webster, Fisher 
Ames, Mitchell, the Astronomer, Buskin and Goethe. 

It is evident that very many others might truly have 
said the same, including Theodore Parker and Mr. Froth- 
ingham and other skeptics, whose writings show plainly 
that they owe their beauties of style to a familiarity with 
the Bible. 

Jesus Christ. 

With these great men who have commended the Bible 
should be mentioned one who is confessed by Christians and 
skeptics the greatest and best of men, Jestjs Christ, who 
used the Psalms as His prayer and hymn book, and always 
spoke of the whole Old Testament as the Eternal Law Book 
of humanity. There is not time, nor is it necessary now 
to answer in detail all the hard questions that can be asked 
about single Bible passages. But these great men and 
Christ saw all these points of difficulty, and yet accepted 
the Bible as the pre-eminent book, commending it to the 
perusal of all as the source of the mind's grandest inspira- 
tions. Side by side with these scores of the world's fore- 
most men who declare the Bible the best of books, or 
strongly commend it, or point to it as the source of their 
grandest thoughts, put the opinion of that more learned (?), 
more profound (?), more unprejudiced (?) scholar and phi- 
losopher, Colonel Ingersoll, who stands almost alone among 
educated men in strongly condemning the Bible, which his 
bigotry prints with a small " b " in spite of the rules of 
grammar, and describes it as about the worst book of the 
world, in these words among others: "If men will read 
the Bible as they read other books, they will be amazed that 
they ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite 
wisdom to be the author of such ignorance and of such 



38 MISTAKES OF 1NGERS0LL. 

atrocity. The Bible burned heretics, built dungeons, 
founded the inquisition, and trampled upon all the liberties 
of men. All the philosophy of the Bible would not make 
one scene in Hamlet. I could write a better book than the 
Bible, which is full of barbarism." 

Amazing Ignorance of Infidels Concerning the Scriptures — Hume's 

Ignorance of the New Testament — Tom Paine 

Without a Bible. 

" But some one asks, Are there not other eminent men 
who have despised and condemned the Bible? Most cer- 
tainly, as there are those who have entered their protest 
against almost any and everything mentionable. It is, 
nevertheless, worthy of note that, in most instances, those 
who have sought the more resolutely to defame the Holy 
Scriptures are those who are comparatively unacquainted 
with them. David Hume, distinguished both as essayist 
and historian, standing among the most noted of modern 
skeptical philosophers, was a resolute objector of the Bible, 
but was notoriously ignorant of its contents. Dr. Johnson, 
in conversation with several literary friends, once observed, 
in his 'usual, direct, and unequivocal manner, that no hon- 
est man could be a deist, because no man could be so after 
a fair examination of the truths of Christianity. When 
the name of Hume was mentioned to him as an exception 
to his remark, he replied : ' ISTo, sir ; Hume once owned to 
a clergyman in the bishopric of Durham, that he had never 
read even the E~ew Testament with attention.' "* 

Let us cross-question another important witness as to his 
knowledge of the book .against which he offers testimony. 
We ask Thomas Paine as to his familiarity with the Bible, 
which he so bitterly condemns, and he replies, " I keep no 
Bible." I hold in my hand a sermon preached in New 

* From " What Noted Men Think of the Bible." 



W. F. CRAFTS' REPLY. 39 

York City, by Rev. W. F. Hatfield, in reply to Mr. Inger- 
soll's lecture on Thomas Paine, in which reply, with abund- 
ant facts, such as would convince a court, it is shown con- 
clusively that Thomas Paine was Vicious and corrupt in life, 
and miserable and remorseful in death. As to the value of 
Voltaire's testimony against Christianity, Carlyle declares it 
worthless on the ground of lack of knowledge on the sub- 
ject of which he testifies. He says: "It is a serious 
ground of offense against Yoltaire that he intermeddled in 
religion without being himself, in any measure, religious; 
that, in a word, he ardently, and with long-continued effort, 
warred against Christianity, without understanding, beyond 
the mere superfices, what Christianity was." 

There are also a class of specialists who are quoted against 
the Bible, and who manifest a hostility to it, whose testi- 
mony is of little value because of the narrow range in 
which they have studied, making them authorities only in 
their special department. Halley, the astronomer, once 
avowed his skepticism in presence of Sir Isaac Newton. 
The venerable man replied: " Sir, you have never studied 
these subjects and I have. Do not disgrace yourself as a 
philosopher by presuming to judge on questions you have 
never examined." 

^Distributed Ignorance and Concentrated Hatred — Probable Cause 
of Ingersoll's Infidelity. 

The largest proportion of skeptics, however, are mere 
sophomores, spoiled with a little learning which is only 
■" distributed ignorance," well represented by a precocious 
boy of fourteen, whom I found writing an essay on " Mat- 
rimony," and who left it during my call to argue in favor 
of Ingersollism and against the Bible (of which he knew 
„as little as of matrimony), which he admitted he had never 
.read, as do nearly all skeptics when questioned on this 



40 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

matter. *The bitterness of the opposition to Christianity 
of Mr. Ingersoll and other infidels is explained by the Earl 
of Rochester, who was converted from infidelity, and said, 
in explanation of his former course and that of others : " A 
bad heart, a bad heart is the great objection against the Holy 
Book." " The fool hath said in his heart" (not his head) 
" there is no God." The bad heart is father to the infidel 
thought. It is like the case of the old woman who broke 
her looking-glass because it showed the wrinkles creeping 
into her fading face. Men strive to break the Bible glass 
that shows the wrinkles and defects of character. The 
whole appearance and tone and spirit of Mr. Ingersoll in 
his lectures is suggestive of this heart hatred against the 
book which he attacks, " kicks," " hates," not with the 
calmness of logic, but with the bitterness of a heart-hos- 
tility. Those infidels who have faithfully examined the 
Bible have usually been convinced of its truth and con- 
verted to Christianity. Among them, such distinguished 
names as Lord Lyttleton, Gilbert West, Soame Jenyus,. 
Bishop Thompson, and at least a score of notable cases in 
connection with Mr. Moody's revival meetings in England. 
"What comparison, let us ask, will the number of cele- 
brated skeptics, even when the best possible showing is 
made, hold with the distinguished men who have ranked! 
the sacred volume above all others ? Remember that your 
mother's love for the Bible and your own early reverence 
for it, have the indorsement of the grandest and profound- 
est minds which have been known and honored among 
humanity." 

The Truth of the Whole Matter. 

But salvation is not by belief in a book, or a creed, or a 
Church, but by belief in the person of Jesus Christ. Mr. 
Ingersoll skips this hard problem, " What think ye of 



W. F. CRAFTS' BE PLY. 41 

Christ?" He hardly refers to this citadel of Christianity 
half a dozen times in all his lectures, making his attacks 
chiefly on human outposts and then claiming to have over- 
borne the citadel of Christianity. Even Strauss, Renan, 
Eousseau, Theodore Parker, Napoleon, and Richter — none 
of them experimental Christians — unite as a jury in the 
verdict expressed by Richter in regard to Christ, " He is 
the purest among the mighty, the mightiest among the 
pure." We have, then, two facts as a sure anchorage of our 
Christianity to-day. All scholarly skepticism agrees with 
Christianity that the Bible is the best of books and that 
Christ is the best of men. He who thus accepts the Bible 
and Christ can not logically or consistently stop short of a 
Christian life, following Christ as his pattern, and walking 
by the Bible as his rule. 

We may differ about creeds, and Church forms, and Bible 
interpretation, but he who has faith and faithfulness toward 
the person, Jesus Christ shall be saved. Let us then 
devoutly utter the creed of Daniel Webster, as inscribed 
by his own request on his tombstone at Marshfield : 

" LORD, I 
BELIEVE, HELP 



J 5 
THOU MINE UNBELIEF. 

PHILOSOPHICAL ARGUMENT 
ESPECIALLY THAT DRAWN PROM 
THE VASTNESS OF THE UNIVERSE IN COM- 
PARISON WITH THE APPARENT INSIGNIFICANCE 
OF THIS GLOBE, HAS SOMETIMES SHAKEN MV REASON 
FOR THE FAITH THAT IS IN ME; BUT MY HEART HAS 
ASSURED ME THAT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST MUST 
BE A DIVINE REALITY. THE SERMON ON THE 
MOUNT CAN NOT BE A MERELY HUMAN 
PRODUCTION. THIS BELIEF ENTERS 
INTO THE VERY DEPTH OF MY 
CONSCIENCE. THE WHOLE 
HISTORY OF MAN 
PROVES IT." 




(^£^-{Zu6->- 



CHAPLAIN McC ABE'S REPLY, 43 



CHAPLAIN M'CABE'S REPLY. 



The Famous Chaplain has a Remarkable Dream — He Sees the 
Great City of Ingersollville — Which Ingersoll and the Infidel 
Host Enter — And are Shut in for Six Months — Remarkable 
Condition of Things Outside and Inside — Happiness and Mis- 
ery — Ingersoll Finally Petitions for a Church and sends for 
a Lot of Preachers. 

I had a dream which was not all a dream. I thought I 
was on a long journey through a beautiful country, when 
suddenly I came to a great city with walls fifteen feet high. 
At the gate stood a sentinel, whose shining armor reflected 
back the rays of the morning sun. As I was about to 
salute him and pass into the city, he stopped me and said: 

"Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?" 

I answered: "Yes, with all my heart." 

" Then," said he, " you can not enter here. No man or 
woman who acknowledges that name can pass in here 
Stand aside!" said he, " they are coming." 

I looked down the road, and saw a vast multitude 
approaching. It was led by a military officer. 

" Who is that?" I asked of the sentinel. 

" That," he replied', " is the great Colonel Robert I * 

the founder of the City of Ingersollville." 

" Who is he?" I ventured to inquire. 

" He is a great and mighty warrior, who fought in many 
bloody battles for the Union during the great war." 

I felt ashamed of my ignorance of history, and stood 
silently watching the procession. I had heard of a Colonel 



44 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 



****** but, of 



course, this could not be the man. 

The procession came near enough for me to recognize 
some of the faces. I noted two infidel editors of national 
celebrity, followed by great wagons containing steam presses. 
There were also five members of Congress. 

All the noted infidels and scoffers of the country seemed 
to be there. Most of them passed in unchallenged by the 
sentinel, but at last a meek-looking individual with a white 
necktie approached, and he was stopped. I saw at a glance 
it was a well-known " liberal " preacher of New York. 

" Do you believe in the Lord Jesus?" said the sentinel. 

"Not much!" said the doctor. 

Everybody laughed, and he was allowed to pass in. 

There were artists there, with glorious pictures ; singers, 
with ravishing voices; tragedians and comedians, whose 
names have a world-wide fame. 

Then came another division of the infidel host — saloon- 
keepers by thousands, proprietors of gambling hells, brothels, 
and theatres. 

Still another division swept by: burglars, thieves, thugs, 
incendiaries, highwaymen, murderers — all — all marching 
in. My vision grew keener. I beheld, and lo! Satan him- 
self brought up the rear. 

High afloat above the mass was a banner on which was 
inscribed: " What has Christianity done for the country?" 
and another on which was inscribed: "Down with the 
churches! Away with Christianity — it interferes with our 
happiness!" And then came a murmur of voices, that 
grew louder and louder until a shout went up like the roar 
of Niagara: "Away with Him! Crucify Him, crucify 
Him!" I felt no desire now to enter Ingersollville. 

As the last of the procession entered, a few men and 
women, with broad-brimmed hats and plain bonnets, made 



CHAPLAIN McC ABE'S REPLY. 45 

their appearance, and wanted to go in as missionaries, but 
they were turned rudely away. A zealous young Metho- 
dist exhorter, with a Bible under his arm, asked permission 
to enter, but the sentinel swore at him awfully. Then I 
thought I saw Brother Moody applying for admission, but 
he was refused. I could not help smiling to hear Moody 
say, as he turned sadly away : 

" Well ! they let me live and work in Chicago ; it is very 
strange they won't let me into Ingersollville." 

The sentinel went inside the gate and shut it with a 
bang; and I thought, as soon as it was closed, a mighty 
angel came down with a great iron bar, and barred the gate 
on the outside, and wrote upon it in letters of fire, " Doomed 
to live together six months." Then he went away, and all 
was silent, except the noise of the revelry and shouting that 
-came from within the city walls. 

I went away, and as I journeyed through the land I could 
not believe my eyes* Peace and plenty smiled everywhere. 
The jails were all empty, the penitentiaries were without 
occupants. The police of great cities were idle. Judges 
sat in court-rooms with nothing to do. Business was brisk. 
Many great buildings, formerly crowded with criminals, 
were turned into manufacturing establishments. Just about 
this time the President of the United States called for a 
Day of Thanksgiving. I attended services in a Presby- 
terian Church. The preacher dwelt upon the changed con- 
dition of aifairs. As he went on, and depicted the great 
prosperity that had come to the country, and gave reasons 
for devout thanksgiving, I saw one old deacon clap his 
handkerchief over his mouth to keep from shouting right 
out. An ancient spinster, who never did like the " noisy " 
Methodists — a regular old blue-stocking Presbyterian — 
wouldn't hold in. She expressed the thought of every heart 
by shouting with all her might, "Glory to God for lnger- 



46 MISTAKES OF INGERSOLL. 

sollville!" A young theological student lifted up his hand 
and devoutly added, " Esto jperjpetua." Everybody smiled. 
The country was almost delirious with joy. Great pro- 
cessions of children swept along the highways, singing, 

" We'll not give up the Bible, 
God's blessed Word of Truth." 

Yast assemblies of reformed inebriates, with their wives 
and children, gathered in the open air. ~No building would 
hold them. I thought I was in one meeting where Bishop 
Simpson made an address, and as he closed it a mighty 
shout went up till the earth rang again . O, it was won- 
derful ! and then we all stood up and sang with tears of joy,. 

" All hail the power of Jesus' name ! 

Let angels prostrate fall ; 
Bring forth the royal diadem, 

And crown him Lord of all." 

The six months had well-nigh gone. I made my way 
back again to the gate of Ingersollville. A dreadful silence 
reigned over the city, broken only by the sharp crack of a 
revolver now and then. I saw a man trying to get in at the 
gate, and I said to him, " My friend, where are you from?"' 

" I live in Chicago," said he, " and they've taxed us to 
death there; and I've heard of this city, and I want to go 
in to buy some real estate in this new and growing place." 

He failed utterly to remove the bar, but by some means 
he got a ladder about twelve feet long, and with its aid, he 
climbed up upon the wall. With an eye to business, he 
shouted to the first person he saw: 

" Hallo, there ! — what's the price of real estate in Inger- 
sollville ?" 

"Nothing !" shouted a voice; "you can have all you 
want if you'll just take it and pay the taxes." 

" What made your taxes so high?" said the Chicago man. 
I noted the answer carefully; I shall never forget it. 



GHAPLA1N McCABE'S REPLY, 47 

" We've had to build forty new jails and fourteen peni- 
tentiaries — a lunatic asylum and an orphan asylum in 
every ward; we've had to disband the public schools, and 
it takes all the city revenue to keep up the police force." 

"Where's my old friend, I ?" said the Chicago man. 

" O, he is going about to-day with a subscription paper 
to build a church. They have gotten up a petition to send 
out for a lot of preachers to come and hold revival services.- 
If we can only get them over the wall, we hope there's a 
future for Ingersollville yet." 

The six months ended. Instead of opening the door, 
however, a tunnel was dug under the wall big enough for 
one person to crawl through at a time. First came two 

bankrupt editors, followed by Colonel I- himself; and 

then the whole population crawled through. Then I 
thought, somehow, great crowds of Christians surrounded 
the city. There was Moody, and Hammond, and Earle, 
and hundreds of Methodist preachers and exhorters, and 
they struck up, singing together, 

" Come, ye sinners, poor and needy." 
A needier crowd never was seen on earth before. 

I conversed with some of the inhabitants of the aban- 
doned city, and asked a few of them this question:* 

" Do you believe in Hell?" 

I can not record the answers; they were terribly orthodox.. 

One old man said, " I've been there on probation for six 
months, and I don't want to join." 

I knew by that he was an old Methodist backslider. The 
sequel of it all was a great revival, that gathered in a 
mighty harvest from the ruined City of Ingersollville. 



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